20 December 2025
The December DebateDoes Ukraine need a cultural front?
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Based in Ukraine’s humanist, cosmopolitan port of Odessa, the Ukrainian Cosmopolis is an international intellectual collective that defends free speech amid fear and uncertainty. We bring together those who reject censorship and refuse the comforts of orthodoxy — writers, scholars, and creators who hold fast to intellectual freedom and civic courage as public duties.
We are the only organisation in Ukraine openly confronting the weaponisation of culture — a core tactic of Russia’s hybrid war, designed to fracture the country from within. We stand squarely against the culture-war politics that enable this strategy.
Through public debates, residencies, and civic initiatives, we cultivate Ukraine’s civic resilience to hybrid warfare and polarising radicalism — the resilience necessary for its democratic, European future.
20 December 2025
December Debate: DOES UKRAINE NEED A CULTURAL FRONT?
Cosmopolis invites applications for the Sutasoma Residencies in Odessa.
Cosmopolis develops the official Odesa UNESCO City of Literature Website.
Cosmopolis receives a three-year Sutasoma Trust grant.
Cosmopolis is helping Odessa's artists reach global audiences.
Cosmopolis launches a collaboration with Odessa's oldest school: the Richilieu Lycèe.
Cosmopolis launches an open letter to Ukraine's Institute of National Memory to defend the city's World Heritage.
News
Odesa Days in Bremen Current Situation of Artists in Odesa
07.12.2025 • Bremen, Germany
Conversation with the collector, writer, and The Green Lamp group member, Eugene Demenok
"Piano Nomad" by Peter Culshaw
30.11.2025 • London, UK
Cosmopolitan composer and music critic Peter Culshaw launches his new album Piano Nomad.
Odesa Days in Bremen Exhibition: "Standing Firm"
28.11.2025 • Bremen, Germany
Exhibition of works by Andrii Laskavij and selections from the Eugene Demenok Collection
When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea
20-26.11.2025 • Berlin, Germany
Eva Neymann is showing her film in Berlin at Kino Krokodil
The Holodomor in Politics, Memory and History
17.11.2025
The Holodomor in Politics, Memory and History by cosmopolitan Georgiy Kasianov now out!
Fairness and [In]Equality at University of Michigan’s Anthropology
24.10.2025 • Ann Arbor, USA
Co-founder of Cosmopolis and anthropologist Anastasia Piliavsky speaks about Fairness and [In]Equality at the University of Michigan’s Anthropology Four-Field Symposium.
“Evening Odesa” B. F. Derevyanko Memorial Award “People of Action”
09.10.2025 • Odessa, Ukraine
Co-founder of Cosmopolis, writer & translator Maya Dimerli received the “People of Action” Award.
'Broken Line' - An exhibition of works by IDP artists
09.10.2025 • Odessa, Ukraine
Cosmopolitan artist Kateryna Biletyna exhibits her work.
Screening of the film When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea
01.10.2025 • Kyiv, Ukraine
Cosmopolitan filmmaker Eva Neymann screens her new documentary "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea" (2025) at the 2025 Odesa Film Festival.
Festival Celebrates Freedom of Art Under Dictatorship
17.09.2025 • Basel, Switzerland
A vibrant meeting place for all who want to understand it in its political and historical contexts. With Alexey Botvinov
New “Litera” poetic season
07.09.2025 • Odessa, Ukraine
Co-founder of Cosmopolis Ilya Kaminsky opens the new season of the poetry studio “Litera.”
Cosmopolis develops official website for the Odesa UNESCO City of Literature office
02.09.2025 • Odessa, Ukraine
As part of our Odessa To the World initiative
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© 2025 Ukrainian Cosmopolis, all rights reserved
Ukrainian Cosmopolis operates in Ukraine under the NGO “Odesa Vilnyi Universytet” (“Odesa Free University”) (Registration No. 38227510), and internationally through Ukrainian Cosmopolis Ltd (Company No. 16901636), a UK non-profit company limited by guarantee. All funds support the cultural and civic programmes of Ukrainian Cosmopolis in Ukraine.
Textures courtesy of Odessa
moc.liamg%40silopomsoc.nainiarku
+38 063 487 70 13 (WhatsApp; Viber)
Ukrainian Cosmopolis Ltd124 City RoadLondonEC1V 2NX United Kingdom